THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1914.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
R. H. K. YACHT CLUB.
The Week-Ead Champlonship
Races.
I WONDER WHY IT IS WE ARE NOT ALL KINDER THAN WE ARE? BERLIN FEELING THE PINCH HOW MUCH THE WORLD NEEDS IT! HOW HOW EASILY IT IS DONE! HOW INSTANTANEOUSLY IT ACTS! INFALLIBLY IT IS REMEMBERED!
Now that life in Hongkong is once more ranning along normal lines, it is surely about time "the ferries raverted to their usual time-table. Some weeks ago A corresponde urged this point, and since then conditions have so changed along favourable lines that we see absolutely no reason why the service should continue ferries are a public service, and it is only right and proper that every facility should be given residents who desire to make the trip across Lower level 8 6.m. Temp. 59; Chemically, an exact reproduction of a well-known Continental the harbour. As the boats at clear. spring, at half the price. Blenda porfectly with Spirits, especially present ran, social life is greatly At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 48; Whisky. Onco try a Whisky Pyeris and you will ask for it again.interfered with, and after-dinner clear.
Prices-$0.85 per doz. Pints. $0.50 per doz. Splits.
FORMAZONE.
A REFRESHING, INVIGORATING and PALATABLE drink to be curtailed. After all, the particularly suited for Tennis Parties.
Tints $1.05 por doz. Splits 65 cts, per doz.
PYERIS.
STONE GINGER BEER.
The only fermented Stone Ginger Beer in the Far East. The real charm of Stone Ginger Beer is the flavour produced by partial fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger Beer can be said to be genuine.
Price:$0.90 per doz
DRY CINCER 'ALE.
FRAGANT, AROMATIO, DRY. Its " Dryness" is a feature which has helped to give this the popularity it so will doserves.
Prices-$1.05 per doz. Pints. $0.65 per do.. Splits.
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gatherings are frequently out| short becauer guests have to har- ry away to catch the last ferry. I nothing more oan be done, would it not be possible to resame the old service on Saturday nights? That would be some thing gained, at any rate. Sanitary Work In Chosen.
In the official report just to hand of Reforms and Progress ju Chosen (Korea) come interesting facts are given concerning meas- ures of sanitation which are un
Theatre..
ORGAN RECITAL.
There was a disappointing The second of the series of Ulub attendance last evening at St. Championship Races of the easton John's Cathedral, the occasion for racing yachts was sailed off being the first of a new series of HOW SUPERABUNDANTLY IT PAYS Hopeful Situation in the Eastern on Saturday, and the first cruiser Mr. Denman Fuller's inimitable
race on Sunday,
organ recitale. It was only on ITSELF BACK! FOR THERE IS NO DEBTOR IN THE WORLD SO HON-
On Saturday the wind held this point that there was any dis oURABLE, SO SUPERELY HONOUR.
steadily from the N.E. through appointment, for the programme ABLE, AS LOVE-Drummond..
Some idea of the economie out the racing, but on Sunday it which was presented was up to plight in which Germany finde was more northerly and light, Mr. Fallor's usual excellence as herself is furnished by the British All olasses were fully represented, regards choice, and a decided im Foreign Office telegram which and the events were keenly con-provement on the score of execu- tion. It may be that the length speaks of the whole of the mines tested. The results were :-
Handicap Class:
of time that has elapsed sinos Mr. in the industrial regions closing
Course: Lyeemun Beacon (S), Faller last played to Hongkong down. Even Berlin, we are told,
The Weather.
The Malls.
French Mail.Arrived per s.s.
Cordillere to-day. Siberian Mail.-Due per s.s. Che
nan to-morrow.
Siberian Mail-Closed per 8.8.
Awa Mara at 11a.m. to day. Australian Mail-Oloses per se. Tango Matn to-morrow at 10
a.m..
Count the Columns.
Yesterday the Telegraph. pab- dertaken in the peninsula. For
dolumns of solid example, under the heading of lished 35 street cleaning, we notice that reading matter. To-day there Sanitary Associations, organised will be 35 published. by Japanese and Korean reaid- ents, have been formed in the
that at the end of 1912 there were over 200 auch Associations ia existence. We notice, too, that
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BIRTH.
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the wife of Mr. N. Blumenthal of a son."
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approval, and must add to the good record of the Japanese as
colonisera.
Happy Canton.
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar on
demand to-day is la 9.9-16d.
Back Agela."
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Humphreys
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is beginning to feel the effects of Kowloon Rock (8), Lyeeman enthusiasts had something the shortage of coal, and already Beacon (S). Distance 9.2 miles. to do with the very favourable the supply of gaa for lighting is Heap, on Finishing Corr. impression that he created leak Course. Time. Time. evening. Bat it can safely be M.S. H. M. 8. H. M. S. said that rarely has he played being cut down. Taken by itself, this may not seem a very serious
Ber. 4.32.01 4.32.01 such a diversity of pieces witho matter, but when it is added to Dione
His feeling the other indications of economic La Linda 2 18 4.36.55 4.34 37 such fine
2 18 4.43.00 4.40.42 treatment of Smart's “Air and distress which have been report Rolla
to time, it Kathleen 5 22 4.43.43 4.35 21 Variations" was everything that ed from time
B 08 4.43 38 4.37.30 could be desired; the treatment of becomes clear that the position of Colleen Germany is every day growing Dorothen 6 54 4.47.10 4. 10. 10 the passages in varied light and worse. Apart from the failure of Ayesha 26 4.48.05 4.39. 37 shade was most sympathetic and
Pts. the German Army and Navy, this
Pis was developed casily into a fine' Position. for Races. to date. colorato conclusion. The game economic factor is bound to have
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might be said in parallel terms? a marked effect on the duration of 1 Dione
of his treatment of the remaining the war. For one thing, it bringe 2 La Linda
celestions, bat to the mind of home to the people, more force- 3 Colleen fally than anything else could, the Kathleen
tome his first item was certainly real state of affairs. It is possible 5 Ayesha
the best, though. Guilmant's "Funeral March and Hymn of to keep the people in ignorance 6 Dorothea
Seraphs" Was another item of what is happening at the front, 7 Rolla
marked by most thoughtful. bat when meat prices rise, bread becomes more difficult to obtain;
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One Design Class.
The full programme was as
follows fu
Course-Channel Rock (P) rendering. and the coal supply begins to Cast Rock (P.). Kowloon Rock returned from Home by the s.s.give out, then does it become (8.), Channel Rook (S.); Distance,
Air and variations,.........Smart. Korea to day.
painfully evident that all is not 7.7 miles.
H'cap. Finishing Time Tone pieture (Night), well with the nation,
"Curlo Sale. To-morrow afternoon Mr. G. P. Lammert, is selling by auction at his sales rooms a valuable col lection of antique China and
Darios.
Visiting Consul.
Dr. Selby S. Coleman, Vice and Deputy Consul of the United States of America at Bombay, is present staying at the Hong kong Hotel.
at
Colony's Health. We congratulate General Lung
During last week the only cases Chai-kwong on the perfect quiet of communicable diseases notified which, according to his report to were two of diphtheria (one fatal) Peking, now prevails in his Pro- and one of enteric fever (non vince and we hope, for his own fatal).
All the gafferere were sake, that everything there is now
Chinese. as it should be-and is said to be, General Lung has had no bed of
Untrained Troops.
Ailsa Boaits
Scratch
There is another point about Daphno the latest announcement which is Allanah not without its significance, and Halcyon
Position: that is that miners are being sent direct to the western front for military service without any pre 1 Allarah liminary training. This of itself 2 Ailsa
Plo,
for Races.
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4.38:10 Funeral March and 4.45.15
8. Korg Elert.
Hymn of Serapha, ... Guilmant.
4.89.03 Andartino, E. Lemare: 4.38.00 Barcarollo, ... Sterndale-Bennett, D.N.S. Finale (Pathetic Symphony),'
Pts.
Technikowsky.
to date. Miktary March, E. Elgar.
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THE SEASON'S
is an admission that the Allies 3 Daphne are proving too good for the Ger- Bonita
Cruiser Class. armies, Seemingly the man
Coarse: Lyeemcon Beacon Kaiser's hope is to make up by numbers what is lacking in e(P), North Fairway buoy (S.). ciency. Bat that policy will Trocas Rock (3.), Channel Licck assuredly never pay. In the (S.). Distance, 16.38 miles.. firat flush of patriotio ex-
H'capon Finishing Coir Tobacco Fund.
Course Time Time When along- A meeting of the Committee of cftement, and
H.M.S. H.M.S. H.M.S, roses since he took over the the Cigarette and Tobacco Fund side of trained troops, the new Tatahship last year. On bis will be held to-morrow (Wednes men may fight with ardour, but Miranda Scratch 5.57.15 5.57.15 arrival at Canton he was met, as day) evening at 5 o'clock at when the leaven of first-line Cenone it were, with cannon-balls and Messrs. Watson and Company's, roops disappears as it is surely Snipe mutiny, the city was divided Alexandra Building..
doing and hopes of victory grow Queen Bee dim,all fight will soon be krooked Irene against itself and many of the officials were hopelessly untrast- We have received the "Annual out of them, and they will be like Erin worthy. Compared with either Report of Progress in Chosen," so many sheep led to the slaugh-Iris of his predecessors the new "The Portuguese Republic," ter Governor-General figured as " Spare a Shilling -and other strong man; and strong he un-Poems," "The World Traveller doubtedly was, according to old-de Luxe" and the "Hongkong
to reatore peace and order in such
Publications Received.
The Hongkong Telegraph. fashioned Chinese traditions. But University Magazine.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1914.
CHINA AND COPYRIGHT,
to
Raub Retarás.
#The Gallant Servians.
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CALENDARS.
Among the first batch of the season's calendara sent for our no- tice is a pocket book of a most useful kind pablished by the Pen-
1.22 D.N.F.-—-— gation Company. It is very ser
insular and Oriental Steam Navi- 1.22 D.N.S. viceably bound, is replete with. 811 451.12.4.43.01 maps, and general information, 16.23 5.32.235.16.00 which includes a mail table, 16.22 5.17.545.01.31 renders it most useful for the .16.23 D.NS. --- -- business man. Bcolengden 32.46 8.40.15 6.07.20 Dorothy II 32.46 6.40.57 6 08.11 Tatian...1.05.31 D.N.S. .....1.21.45 D.N.F.
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Points to
Position.
date.
1 Queen Bee
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2 Erin 3 Irene
4 "Miranda
5 Scatengden
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6. Dorothy II
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SOME VERSES.
Spare a Shilling and
Other Poems.” ⠀
The P, and O. also forward us one of their wall calendars, very artistically got up, with a charm- ing picture of their famous vessel the Kaiser-i-Hind.
The Alliance Assurance Com psoy Limited, with which is in- corporated the Imperiat Insurance. Company Limited (local agents, Mosers, Dodwell and Company,)` have issued a very handy blotting book with calendar on the last rage: This enormously wealthy concern is to be congratulated on its production.
The Norwich Union Fire In- surance Boolety Limited (looál
Messrs. Kelly and Walsh have agents Messrs. David Sassoon and verses Company Limited) sends us a
It we turn to the eastern thea- tre, it will be seen by the mess- ages of the past few days that the a place as the Kwangtung Pro- The following are the results battle is going steadily in our vince would have been a work of crushing oporations at Raub favour. The capture of Belgrade of long and patient labour even for the four weeks ended 5th inst. by the Austriana has only served for a Kitchener; and therefore it Bukit Koman: Stone crushed to put fresh life and energy only remains to compliment the 4,559 tons; gold obtained 803 into the gallant Servians, who
fighting with now News comes from the North that President Yuan haa isened a new Tutah on the fact that things oza; average per ton 3.023 dwts. are Mandate announcing that the new copyright bill passed by the Team have been no worse than they Bukit Malacca Stone crushed determination and energy which
command
admir- the Cheng Yuan has now become law, and we look forward with a have been.
3,865 tons; gold obtained 340 must oza; average per ton 1.800 dwts. ation of the whole world. They pardonable cariosity to seeing a copy thereof. When the last School Magazines.
Interesting Announcement. are literally playing havoo with A very healthy sign in Hong- copyright bill was passed by the British Parliament, China had hardly come to be looked upon as a nation likely to want much in kong is the multiplying of The engagement is announced the Austrians, and, if present the way of European books, and the result was that the agreement magazines produced largely by of Mr. W. E. Buckingham, R.E, indications count for anything. entered into between Britain and all other foreign countries (with school boys and university son of the late Sir James the time should not be far distant published gratis some the exception, of course, of the United States) did not include China. students. We say "largely" Buckingham; C.IE., formerly of when the Servian capital is once which, though signed "An calendar of useful size, with When our neighbour began to wake up and to take an interest in because, at present, many of the Amgoorie, Assam, India, and of more restored to its rightful American who owes England detachable date slips, which should foreign literature, the Publishers' Association. at Home, we believe, contributions these little Lady Buckingham, of Princes owners, News has since come much," do not give the impress find a place above every deek.'** George Craddock and Company talked of "doing something," but the matter ended in talk, since it publications are obviously written mansions, 70, Victoria-street, and through that the Servinne have ion of being all penned by the was felt that, at any rate for some time to come, China would be by masters and professora. But Winifred, second daughter of re-entered Belgrade.] In the face same hand. The booklet does Limited, of Wakefield, England, unlikely to publieb on its own account.
that, we take it, is only by way of Colonel and Mrs. Baker Brown, of over-whelmingly large forces of not call for serious criticism, through their local agents, the the enemy the Serviana are making but we appreciate the fact that Eastern Asbestos Company- Interest in western literature spread steadily, however; and, at giving the lads a start and setting Hongkong.
Hongkong Chinese Loyalty. huge captures of men and muni the publication is issued for (Messrs. Bradley and Company, last, one or two go-ahead native printers who had been educated in them a good example. It is good Americo or Australis began to take upon themselves to publish that boys who show signs of being The London and China Express tions. More power to their elbow. charitable purposes and that the managera), issuan calendar of very amounts realised by the sale of large size which should be found English books-sometimes in translation, sometimes in the original able to write should be encouraged to hand this morning remarks --
What of the Russians? it will be forwarded by the pub-particularly on the walls of count- -on their own account. Even then comparatively little interest to contribute to such magazines, The fact that many of the Chinese
It is clear, too, that the Russianslishors to help the starving poor, ing houses and rooms above the was felt in literary circles at Home, because, almost without for their readere-who, for the at Hongkong have offered to on- exception,
books the
답다 published were 10 longer more part, will be their school list and assist in shouldering the are once again getting, the mea- Allusion is made to "Father ordinary size. It is hardly necess copyright. Then, as, school exts, written and published mates are usually severe critics burden of the Empire is another sare of the Germans, who in the Mother God," of whom we do no ary to mention in a shipping by English people; were
in popularised Canton, who won't stand nonsense, "side" testimony to the qualities of Mluva region are very much on the remember any mention in Holy port like this that the firm of While the Russian cam Writ. But the poetry ie, as Craddock and Company is that Peking etc., it entered into the minds of these ingenione or "frills." We have been told British Government. That Chiran.
manufacturers... Chinese printers that those booke, like everything else, could be by schoolmasters that many a lad nese make excellent soldiers paiga has often presented per aforesaid, written with good in- of the world-famous wire rope copied, and copied far more oheaply then they could be imported. who writes but an indifferent ander proper leaders has been plexing aspects, and has not been tensione. Accordingly, before very long, nativa booksellera were offering for English composition can yet tarn demonstrated. It is not pro marked by continuous and un- sale, at prices for below those at which imported books could be out excellent "copy" for the bable that we shall find them broken success, it must not ba DEPORTEES FALL OUT. sold, publications whose rights are secured to one or other of the school magazine-because there is being used in the West, Lux we assumed that the Russian steam Before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the well-known British firme, or the authors whom they represent. ahead of him the big reward of may appreciate the spirit in them roller has broken down. Some Police Court, this morning, two were called to a fire which broke This kind of thing should have been foressen and guarded seeing himself in print. There that leads to the offer, and the people have been misled into Chinese deportees from Singapore, out at 5, Sai Street. The four- storied building was gutted. against; yet it was allowed to slide, till the representatives in China may be other re: sons besides, for underlying tribute to British thinking of huge et da samewere charged by Inspector The ground floor was used as a
time as a steam-roller and a race- Terrett, with robbing another of the Home firme found the demand for their own wores un-such a boy's success in this line. methods of administration.
horse. But even if the Czar's deportee. It was alleged that after cook shop and was occupied by accountably small. The English publishers should have known that The literary or artistic tempera- traders who do not respect foreign trade marks and who will flood the ment is often dead opposed to
armiesare not making sensational robbing the men, one of the Tepi Chi. The second and third Chinese market with fraudulent imitations of everything British, from echool rontine and discipline-a
advance, they are still rendering defendants, gaye him the sum of floors were dwellings, while the immenes service to the Allies by $10 to say nothing about the top floor was the workshop of a tobacoas to patent medicines, would not offer a particularly sturdy foot for which the pedagogio mind resistance to the temptation to print what did not belong to them. does not always make due al-
engaging large German forces affair. Nothing was said until the tailor. The fire is supposed to Obviously it was the daty of the Home Government to protest against lowance. Kipling and Conan The telegram quoted below was which could otherwise be used
The party reached Hongkong, and have originated in the chimney. such robbery and if necessary, to bring pressure to bear to prevent Doyle were both rated as hope received by the American Con- decisively in the west,
then the victim made the matter The roofs of the two adjoining it; for it was unlikely that, without a strong hint, any Chinese less young wastrels by their resulate General, Hongkong, from Russians have suffered and will known to the police. Some of the houses were damaged by fire. government would exercise itself to a great extent in connection spective form-masters, and we the Manila Observatory at 12.16 probably again suffer ohooks, but with such a matter, without a hint from outside.~Of course it ie know a man at Home (who has p.m. to-day:➡RY taking the situation in its, broad money was found concealed on The premises were not ingared. only fair to President Yean to say that, since he took office, he has made a big name as a painter) Cyclone or Typhoon.-Near or aspects it is plain that they can ants. Had for more serious matters to attend to than this. However that who used to get at least two over the northern Ladrone or more than hold the Germans, and, may be, the new law has come none too soon and we shall be glad canings a day for drawing heads Mariana Islande, moving WNW it their turn, can move forward
slowly but surely. to learn not only that it is thorough but that it is being fully acted and landscapes on the margine of or N.W.
his algebra book
TYPHOON WARNING.
Fire Destroys Premises," This morning the fire brigade
the person of one of the defend The Fire Brigade under Station Officer Lane and Chief Inspector Hie Worship dismissed the Gourlay extinguished the flames. case, the evidence not being such The extent of the damage is not
known, as would permit of a conviction.
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